Role: (Python) Sr. Software Engineer API (MUST Have Python, API Experience)
Location: Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Executes full product life-cycle (inception through deprecation) to create highly scalable and flexible RESTful APIs to enable an infinite number of digital products.
• Collaborates with other Engineers, Creative/UX designers, Scrum Masters, Product Managers, Business Analysts and Architects.

Required Experience:

• 3+ years of python server development using Django, Flask, Bottle or other python frameworks
• 8+ years industry experience
• Ability to write unit-tested and maintainable code
• Expertise working with and building RESTful APIs
• Expert in Node.js or Python
• Knowledgeable in cloud platforms (preferable AWS: both traditional EC2 and serverless Lambda), micro-services architecture, CI/CD solutions (including Docker), DevOps principles, message queue systems, and background task management.
• Experience with API security frameworks, token management and user access control including OAuth, JWT, etc.
• Solid foundation and understanding of relational and NoSQL database principles.
• Ability to work in an Agile /SCRUM environment.
• Well organized with a bias for action with minimal direction.
• A team player with a start-up/entrepreneur mindset.
• Ravenous about learning technology and problem solving.
• Strong writing and communication skills.
• Understanding of OOP and Data Structures and know when to apply them in daily coding scenarios
• Message queues (RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, etc)
• Background task processing (Celery, etc)
• Experience configuring container like systems (Vagrant, Docker, etc)
• Basic understanding of modern web components (HTML/CSS/JS)
• Ability to self-organize with minimal guidance/competing priorities and work effectively within a team
• Ability to provide innovative, creative solutions to tasks/problems
• Ability to complete work following engineering standards and best practices
• Develops clean, elegant, well-commented, and very reusable code which is easy to maintain and extend
• Understanding of caching strategies and implementation (Redis, Memcache, etc.)
• Working knowledge of source control systems such as (Git, SVN, etc)
• Working knowledge of serving high scale HTTP(S) protocol (Nginx, Apache, etc.)

Bonus Points:

• Experience writing APIs for multiple platforms (Web, Mobile App, etc.)
• Experience with additional languages such as NodeJS, PHP, etc.
• Understanding of Big Data platforms and ETL in the context of Big Data
• Expertise working with Hadoop/Distributed platforms
• NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Couch, etc.)
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks and tools (webpack, yarn, gulp, grunt, angular, react, sass)
• Experience with BI reporting software
• Experience with high throughput infrastructures
• Expertise with Linux and deployment schemes using a configuration management tool such as Ansible / Puppet / Chef / Salt
• Knowledge of constructing PostgreSQL and SQL query strings and fine-tuning them for performance
• Familiarity with WebSocket connections